2008 got off to a creative start with an event organised by ‘Parking Non-Stop’ at the Anglesey Arms, Menai Bridge. As well as hearing some great music, it was a good opportunity to play electrically for the first time with Jim and Fiona (the name ‘koo’ seems to have found its way to us).

I’ve been reading about and listening to Keith Rowe and to Feldman, and they’re reminding me that some music is as rooted in visual art traditions as it is in music traditions. Rowe makes many links to visual art, including the parallel between Pollock’s decision to put the canvas on the floor, and his own to lay the guitar flat on the table, thereby ‘inventing’ a new tradition. I got interested in the relationships between Rothko’s paintings and Feldman’s Rothko Chapel and need to follow this up. There is an interesting interview with Rowe (as well as several great programme archives) in the Audition archives.